The negro

I Industrial Education for the Negro Booker T. Washington II The Talented Tenth W.E. Burghardt DuBois III The Disfranchisement of the Negro Charles W. Chesnutt IV The Negro and the Law Wilford H. Smith V The Characteristics of the Negro People H.T. Kealing VI Representative American Negroes Paul Laurence Dunbar VII The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day T. Thomas Fortune 211 187 161 125 77 31 7
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Industrial Education for the Negro By BOOKER T.

Education of 1871 an exhaustive History of the Schools for the Colored Population in the District of
Columbia. In that same document was included a survey of the Legal Status of the Colored Population in
Respect to Schools and Education in the Different States. But although the author of the latter collected a mass
of valuable material, his report is neither comprehensive nor thorough. Other publications touching this
subject have dealt either with certain localities or special phases.

In this period of the Negro's development so much has been wielded towards influencing him in the
expression of manly sentiment, that when an unhampered and heartfelt defense is made in his behalf by one of
his number, it should, and I believe will, secure a universal support by the defenders.

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This study was begun as one of the several researches of the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, largely at the suggestion of Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, the director, to whose interest, advice and sympathy its completion is largely due. Sincere thanks are due the Bureau for making the investigation possible. The material was gathered between January, 1909, and January, 1910, except about four weeks in August, 1909, during the time that I was pursuing studies at the School of Philanthropy and at Columbia University.

By way of introduction to the American public, of the author and editor of this book, we beg to say that Mr.
Wilson is not altogether unknown to the literary world, having already published several works relative to the
Negro race.
His services during the war of the Rebellion secured for him a flattering recognition. He served in the 2nd
Regiment Louisiana Native Guard Volunteers, also the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers,--the most famous of
the Union negro regiments that engaged in the struggle, receiving several wounds.

The migration of the blacks from the Southern States to those offering them better opportunities is nothing
new. The objective here, therefore, will be not merely to present the causes and results of the recent
movement of the Negroes to the North but to connect this event with the periodical movements of the blacks
to that section, from about the year 1815 to the present day.

The Portuguese began exploring the west coast of Africa shortly before Christopher Columbus was born; and
no sooner did they encounter negroes than they began to seize and carry them in captivity to Lisbon. The court
chronicler Azurara set himself in 1452, at the command of Prince Henry, to record the valiant exploits of the
negro-catchers. Reflecting the spirit of the time, he praised them as crusaders bringing savage heathen for
conversion to civilization and christianity.

MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the
James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in
1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased
to five hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. In fifteen of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made
lawful by the Constitution, which binds the several States into one confederacy.

During the centuries which had elapsed since the entry of the Spaniards and Portuguese into these regions an
extraordinary fusion of races had taken place. White, red, and black had mingled to such an extent that the
bulk of the settled population became half-caste. Only in the more temperate regions of the far north and
south, where the aborigines were comparatively few or had disappeared altogether, did the whites remain
racially distinct. Socially the Indian and the negro counted for little.

An English traveler, riding along the banks of the Potomac in mid-July, 1798, saw ahead of him on the road an old-fashioned chaise, its driver urging forward his slow horse with the whip, until a sharp cut made the beast swerve, and the chaise toppled over the bank, throwing out the driver and the young lady who was with him. The traveler—it was John Bernard, an actor and a man of culture and accomplishments, spurred forward to the rescue. As he did so he saw another horseman put his horse from a trot to a gallop, and together they...

HE sea that laves the palm-fringed shores of Pernambuco
gleams like an emerald. Never before had I seen a sea of such a
vivid green; and when, on entering the harbour of Recife, the
capital of the State of Pernambuco, and looking out over the farflung
stone breakwater, where from time to time the foam of the
breakers spouted up in snowy clouds, I beheld this green radiance,
I could hardly at first beheve that this was the ocean over which I
had been voyaging.

This is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington"
remains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the
chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to
take his place for all time among America's great men. In fact, we have not even touched upon his childhood,
early training, and education, because we felt the story of those early struggles and privations had been
ultimately well told in his own...

"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, Are to us, as if a living
tongue Spake from the printed leaves, or pictured faces!"
The aim of the Author in preparing this volume has been to put in a form, convenient for preservation and
future reference, a brief historical sketch of the work and workers connected with the founding and
development of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, established for the benefit of the Freedmen of the Choctaw
Nation, Indian Territory, by the Presbyterian church, U. S. A.

In the preparation of this work it has been the writer's aim to present in it, with historical accuracy, authentic
facts; to be fair and impartial in grouping them; and to be true and just in the conclusions necessarily drawn
from them. While thus striving to be accurate, fair, and just, he has not thought it his duty to mince words, nor
to refrain from "calling things by their right names;" neither has he sought to curry favor, in any quarter, by
fulsome adulation on the one side, nor undue denunciation on the other, either of the living, or of the dead.
But, while tracing...

In the midst of another writing project, I became increasingly enamored
of Andrew “Rube” Foster, who has been termed both the father and the
godfather of black baseball. To my amazement and somewhat perverse
author’s delight, I discovered that only one biography of Foster had been
produced; moreover, as matters turned out, the scope of that lone book
was quite limited.

I have accepted no statement of fact, however generally made, until I was fully persuaded from my own
personal investigation that what I heard was really a fact and not a rumour.
Wherever I have ventured upon conclusions, I claim for them neither infallibility nor originality. They are
offered frankly as my own latest and clearest thoughts upon the various subjects discussed. If any man can
give me better evidence for the error of my conclusions than I have for the truth of them I am prepared to go
with him, and gladly, as far as he can prove his way. And I have offered...

Had an invitation reached me to take command of a regiment of Kalmuck Tartars, it could hardly have been
more unexpected. I had always looked for the arming of the blacks, and had always felt a wish to be
associated with them; had read the scanty accounts of General Hunter's abortive regiment, and had heard
rumors of General Saxton's renewed efforts. But the prevalent tone of public sentiment was still opposed to
any such attempts; the government kept very shy of the experiment, and it did not seem possible that the time
had come when it could be fairly tried.
For myself, I was at the...

Character of a City illustrated by Riots.--New Material for History of Draft Riots.--History of the Rebellion
incomplete without History of them.--The Fate of the Nation resting on the Issues of the Struggle in New
York City.--The best Plan to adopt for Protection against Mobs.
The history of the riots that have taken place in a great city from its foundation, is a curious and unique one,
and illustrates the peculiar changes in tone and temper that have come over it in the course of its development
and growth.